architeuthisflux.bsky.social
Nonsense enthusiast / degenerate thing maker / obligate goofy-goober
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Okay a conference badge with a little sticker printer, camera and a book to place them in would be sooo rad.
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It's gonna be difficult to follow a trail perpendicular to a camera you're holding by definition.
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Some of those look familiar...
(They got all of these onto my back over the course of a night without me noticing. I suspect @alpenglow.bsky.social masterminded the whole operation)
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Oh yeah that's a great idea, I'll do that.
And thanks, it's really weird starting with Adobe Premiere and ending up with an array of uint32_t color values.
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Wooo!
I'm also finding people don't randomly scan QR codes on boxes so here's a link to the guide:
jumperless.org
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Oh also it uses a bunch of xTerm / VT100 hacks to print the OLED's frame buffer next to the menu.
It's downscaled from 128x32 by using combinations of the quarter block characters ▖ ▗ ▘ ▙ ▚ ▛ ▜ ▝ ▞ ▟ ▌▄ █ to show 4 pixels in a single character.
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Don't worry, there are other options.
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And here's what all 12 of those analog crossbar switches are up to. These are the same connections you see in the video, so if you stare at it long enough, it might make sense.
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DigiKey has a page for it and I emailed them a long time ago and got a response (I was gonna list my spring clips but then I remembered I don't care.)
www.digikey.com/en/resources...
For Mouser, @crowdsupply.bsky.social set all that up for me so I'm not sure. But I imagine an email would work.
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MOSFETs don't really draw any current from the supply, so FG-CMOS just uses a little capacitor in the silicon as the power supply and then periodically tops them up with high voltage from an on-chip charge pump or whatever.
Bleeding-edge shit they invented in the 50s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pS9...
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I'll show up to the fab with a gun and take hostages until they make my chips as designed...
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And really the point of all this is to hit a broader market so I can justify my dream of making Jumperless V6 out of beefy floating-gate CMOS. So the connection resistance would be milliohms and voltage limits can be ±150V while only needing a 3.3V supply.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floatin...
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The idea is: you'd plop down an analog crossbar matrix in QFN to do all your routing for development, and once you're happy with your design, you can order a reel of cheap, QFN-shaped PCBs with the wiring in place for your final product.
Kinda like an analog version of Mask ROM.
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Closing a box with gaffer's tape feels like the shipping equivalent of sprinkling diamonds on your food. I'm gonna pretend I did that just to be a baller and not because I ran out of packing tape.
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You should have recited that whole note to me verbally
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I'll eat one and report back.
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Now I wish I included a cool note like this.
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I told them they could ship them across town to Elecrow loose in a trash bag for all I care. But noOooOoo, they have to pack them all nice like total dorks.
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Holy shit they even came with a datasheet
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Woo I just got a pic of these cables' home with everything else in there.
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These are the two engineering samples they made and it's still gonna be a bit over a month before 2000 of these are finished, so all my hand-glowttering won't be for naught.
I think I'll still put in glittery ones at random after they get here so they'll be like shiny Pokémon.
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Ha I did put music on the Youtube version, but Benny Hill would have worked too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZbD...
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Genie: You may send one message to your younger self, make it count...
Me: Tell him I occasionally spend an hour filtering glitter.
Genie: Wait, really? You know it could be like, anything right? *sigh* Okay...
Younger me: Hell yeah.
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This will be very useful for anyone using their Jumperless V5 in the dark after leaving it in the sun for a while.
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It has been reborn as the THE GLOWTTER PILE
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Yeah, that too. But you don't want to be in a situation where they retract that exemption in transit and you're screwed. Plus the ~40% that still applies is brutal.
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Oh totally, I’m just trying to remind people that lying to Nazis on customs forms is morally correct.
It sucks we can’t use JLC now, but for anyone else they’re handing just you a yes/no questionnaire that’s like “are you trying to engage in commerce while an orange toddler is throwing a tantrum?”
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Yeah I wouldn’t have mentioned any of it, but I’ve seen so much despairing defeatist shit from friends after that JLC blog post today that I felt like I need to remind people they don’t have to comply in advance with systems that are actively trying to fuck you over.
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It’s basically doing for smaller PCB manufacturers in Shenzhen what it was supposed to do for US manufacturers.
JLC is too big to want the liability but the rest are totally used to this kinda thing.
Not like I’m happy about any of this but it’s nice to see my homies at Elecrow catch a break.